Professional Headshots for Women in Tech

The women-in-tech register

You build things, and your headshot should look like it. This pack stages you in the working life you actually have, not the beige boardroom every stock headshot defaults to. The brick-loft engineering floor with its exposed brick, black ductwork and rows of desks; the cool glow of monitors running blurred, unreadable code; the tall steel-framed industrial windows pouring in daylight. It's the Western engineering register — loft, glass, campus — rendered as the room you'd recognise, because a portrait taken where you work says more than one taken nowhere.

The nine portraits move through three looks. The brick-loft workstation — a dual-monitor desk, a mechanical keyboard, a sticker-covered laptop lid — for the portrait that reads at home in the code. The glass wall mid system-design — a marker raised, an architecture diagram in blue and red dry-marker, the whole 'I run this session' register — for the one that reads senior and technical, not decorative. And the campus courtyard or terrace at golden hour — birch trees, a curved glass facade going molten in the sunset — for the warm, human one that still says engineer.

The wardrobe is the real thing: a fine-knit sweater with the sleeves pushed up, a mustard turtleneck, an oversized blazer over a white tee with sneakers and headphones round the neck, a camel overcoat over a black turtleneck. What the pack borrows is the staging, the light and the styling. What it renders is a photograph — photoreal, not a painting, not an avatar. Every face stays clear to the lens, composed for a professional read, so the same nine serve a LinkedIn photo, a GitHub or conference profile picture, and a team-page portrait.

This is a women's pack, and range is built in — the sample runs across every complexion in the same confident register, so whoever you are, one of the nine reads as you. If what you want instead is a straight formal headshot on a neutral studio wall — the kind that sits on a corporate team grid alongside the whole leadership — the Corporate Headshots pack covers that ground, including its own women's register. This pack is the one for the engineer who wants her actual working world in the frame.

How to photograph yourself for a women-in-tech headshot

Better source photos make better portraits. The pack works with an ordinary phone selfie — the free preview tells you in seconds — but a few things sharpen the likeness.

1. Even, soft lightStand near a window with indirect daylight on your face. Avoid overhead office lights and phone flash — both flatten the face and are the usual reason an AI headshot misses your likeness.
2. Front or three-quarter angleCamera at eye level, facing it or turned slightly to three-quarter. No shot from below, no laptop-webcam angle.
3. Face fully clearHair and glasses off the face. A clear, front-facing photo is the best photo for an AI headshot — it gives the model the most of you to lock onto.
4. Dress toward the registerThe pack renders a smart-casual tech register — a knit, a turtleneck, a blazer over a tee. A source photo in that direction sharpens the result, though it isn't required.
5. Plain wall behind youA plain background keeps the focus on your face rather than on unpicking a busy room.

Frequently asked questions

Will the result look like a real photo, or like an obvious AI headshot?

A real photo. The output is photoreal — a photograph of you on an engineering floor, at a glass wall, or on a campus terrace, not a painting or a stylised avatar. The setting and styling are staged; your face is yours and the render reads as a camera shot.

How is this different from the Corporate Headshots pack?

Register, and who it's for. Corporate Headshots is the formal, institutional one — tailored suiting on a neutral studio wall, a glass office, an executive floor — built to sit on a corporate team grid alongside the whole leadership, and it serves women directly in that formal register. This pack is the tech-identity one: the brick-loft floor, the system-design glass wall, the campus at golden hour, in smart-casual engineering wear. Pick Corporate Headshots when the photo has to read formal-institutional; pick this when you want your actual working world in the frame.

Will it read senior, or will it look junior and decorative?

It's staged to read senior. The middle look puts you at the glass wall running a system-design session, marker in hand — the register of the person leading the design review, not sitting in on it. That's a deliberate answer to the stock-photo problem where women in tech get shot as background rather than authority.

Does it look like me — I don't see my complexion in a lot of tech stock photos?

That's exactly why range is built in. The sample runs across every complexion in the same confident register, and whichever face you upload drives the output — so the nine come back looking like you, not like a single default that was never you.

Can I use it as my LinkedIn and GitHub profile picture?

Yes — that's the core use. You get portrait and square crops from the same nine, so one purchase covers your LinkedIn photo, your GitHub or conference profile picture, a Slack avatar, and a team-page portrait.

Is this a women-only pack? Can men use it?

The sample and styling are built for women in tech, so the register reads that way. If you want the same working-world register in a men's or mixed styling, the general professional packs cover that ground; this one is deliberately hers.

How is this different from Midjourney or Stable Diffusion?

Text-to-image tools generate a woman who matches a description — not a portrait of you. This pack anchors every render to your uploaded face, so the output is you on an engineering floor, consistent across all nine, rather than a plausible stranger who happens to look technical.

What if I only have an ordinary phone selfie?

One clear selfie is enough to start. The free preview shows the likeness in seconds — if it's off, the prep tips above are the fastest fix, usually lighting. Even, indirect light and a straight-on angle matter far more than the camera.

Can I use these commercially?

Yes. The output is yours — a company website, a conference bio, press materials, a personal site. See the terms for the full scope.

What happens to the photo I upload?

Your preview photo is processed on European servers and deleted within 24 hours. If you train your model, those photos train only your model and are deleted the moment you delete your model. Nothing is sold or shared with third parties.

When the Women in Tech pack fits

• For a LinkedIn profile picture that reads senior and technical, not decorative
• For a company team page or engineering-org 'about' grid
• For a GitHub, GitLab, or Stack Overflow profile picture
• For a conference or meetup speaker bio and its slide
• For a personal site, portfolio, or dev blog author photo
• For an X, Bluesky, or Mastodon avatar that matches your work
• For a Slack, email, and internal-directory portrait
• For a press or media kit when you're quoted or interviewed
• For a job application, promotion packet, or mentorship profile
• For any woman in tech who is tired of a headshot that looks like it belongs to a different job

About narcis

Most AI portrait tools ship every pose, profession, era, and aesthetic in one giant catalog. The output looks like every other AI photo on the internet — a glaze over a stock face. Narcis goes the other way. One tool, one job: turn photos of you into portraits worth keeping. Drop a selfie and your free preview streams in seconds — a quick sketch: close, not you yet. For portraits that are truly you, train your own model on 12 to 20 photos; it trains in the background, and we email you when it is ready. Train once, render everywhere — this pack, every other pack, and the Studio all come out of that one model, about ten seconds a portrait, and it stays yours to retrain or delete. Each pack is hand-curated against actual references — paintings, photographers, registers — and tested on real faces before it ships. See a free preview before you pay, not after. Packs are one-time — no subscription to buy one; Studio, the unlimited composer, is optional at €12/month and every pack includes 30 days of it. No template generator. Built and run by one team, on our own infrastructure.